The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Reading region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 3 10 6
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 133 115 136
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 15.11% 9.991% 13.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.60% 10.85% 15.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 46 84
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £256 £229
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £475 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
Average hourly rate £15.00 £24.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.50% +23.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
801 1060 876
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.02% 92.09% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 370 393
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 51 39
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.38 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.50 £27.50 £22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Developer
Berkshire

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Developer across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Reading Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Developer across the Reading region.

Reading Developer Daily Rate Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the Reading region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Reading Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Developer across the Reading region.

Reading Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Developer in their job title.

1 115 (44.23%) .NET
2 106 (40.77%) C#
3 98 (37.69%) CSS
4 89 (34.23%) JavaScript
5 80 (30.77%) jQuery
6 77 (29.62%) HTML
7 70 (26.92%) ASP.NET
8 68 (26.15%) SQL
8 68 (26.15%) MVC
8 68 (26.15%) HTML5
9 59 (22.69%) SQL Server
10 50 (19.23%) XML
11 44 (16.92%) Windows
12 40 (15.38%) Microsoft
13 38 (14.62%) TDD
14 36 (13.85%) Web Services
15 35 (13.46%) Agile Software Development
15 35 (13.46%) ASP.NET MVC
16 33 (12.69%) CSS3
16 33 (12.69%) WCF
17 32 (12.31%) .NET Framework
18 31 (11.92%) Java
19 30 (11.54%) Ajax
20 29 (11.15%) Web Development
21 27 (10.38%) Telecoms
22 26 (10.00%) Scrum
23 25 (9.615%) Finance
23 25 (9.615%) Visual Studio
24 24 (9.231%) Oracle
25 23 (8.846%) Perl

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 115 (44.23%) .NET
2 98 (37.69%) CSS
3 80 (30.77%) jQuery
4 77 (29.62%) HTML
5 70 (26.92%) ASP.NET
6 68 (26.15%) HTML5
7 50 (19.23%) XML
8 36 (13.85%) Web Services
9 35 (13.46%) ASP.NET MVC
10 33 (12.69%) CSS3
10 33 (12.69%) WCF
11 32 (12.31%) .NET Framework
12 30 (11.54%) Ajax
13 19 (7.308%) KnockoutJS
13 19 (7.308%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 15 (5.769%) Spring
14 15 (5.769%) ASP.NET MVC 4
15 14 (5.385%) XHTML
16 13 (5.000%) Dojo
17 12 (4.615%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 22 (8.462%) CMS
2 19 (7.308%) SharePoint
3 15 (5.769%) Windows Azure
4 13 (5.000%) SharePoint Server
5 9 (3.462%) ESB
6 8 (3.077%) Drupal
7 6 (2.308%) Apache
7 6 (2.308%) Tomcat
8 4 (1.538%) Amazon AWS
9 3 (1.154%) IIS
9 3 (1.154%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (1.154%) SharePoint 2010
10 2 (0.769%) WordPress
10 2 (0.769%) Alfresco
10 2 (0.769%) MS Project Server
10 2 (0.769%) Joomla!
10 2 (0.769%) CM System
10 2 (0.769%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.385%) WebSphere Process Server
11 1 (0.385%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 18 (6.923%) MS Excel
2 13 (5.000%) Photoshop
3 12 (4.615%) MS Office
4 3 (1.154%) MS Project
5 2 (0.769%) Fireworks
5 2 (0.769%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.769%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.385%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.385%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 3 (1.154%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.385%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.385%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.077%) 3G
2 7 (2.692%) 2G
2 7 (2.692%) LDAP
3 6 (2.308%) Radio Access Network
4 5 (1.923%) TELNET
5 3 (1.154%) HTTP
5 3 (1.154%) Intranet
6 2 (0.769%) LTE
6 2 (0.769%) Internet
7 1 (0.385%) Wireless
7 1 (0.385%) FTP
7 1 (0.385%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.385%) ATM
7 1 (0.385%) GSM
7 1 (0.385%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (22.69%) SQL Server
2 21 (8.077%) MySQL
3 12 (4.615%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (4.615%) SQL Server 2005
3 12 (4.615%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.231%) SQL Server 2008
5 9 (3.462%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (3.462%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (2.692%) OLAP
7 6 (2.308%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (2.308%) DTS
8 5 (1.923%) IDOL
9 4 (1.538%) Oracle 10g
10 3 (1.154%) BusinessObjects XI
11 2 (0.769%) MS Access
11 2 (0.769%) GIS
12 1 (0.385%) Essbase
12 1 (0.385%) DB2
12 1 (0.385%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.385%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 25 (9.615%) Visual Studio
2 16 (6.154%) Team Foundation Server
2 16 (6.154%) Subversion
3 11 (4.231%) SpecFlow
4 10 (3.846%) Jasmine
5 9 (3.462%) Eclipse
6 7 (2.692%) Maven
6 7 (2.692%) JIRA
7 6 (2.308%) JUnit
8 4 (1.538%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.538%) Dreamweaver
8 4 (1.538%) Xcode
9 3 (1.154%) PhoneGap
9 3 (1.154%) MSTest
9 3 (1.154%) Selenium
10 2 (0.769%) PVCS
10 2 (0.769%) Ant
11 1 (0.385%) NUnit
11 1 (0.385%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.385%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 27 (10.38%) Telecoms
2 25 (9.615%) Finance
3 14 (5.385%) Banking
4 11 (4.231%) Retail
5 6 (2.308%) Marketing
6 5 (1.923%) Advertising
6 5 (1.923%) Games
6 5 (1.923%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (1.538%) Japanese Language
7 4 (1.538%) Korean Language
8 3 (1.154%) Publishing
9 2 (0.769%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.769%) Automotive
10 1 (0.385%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.385%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.385%) Polish Language
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.769%) Digital Media
2 12 (4.615%) Mobile App
3 10 (3.846%) Open Source
4 8 (3.077%) iPad
5 6 (2.308%) W3C
6 5 (1.923%) Blackberry
7 4 (1.538%) Computer Science
8 3 (1.154%) Inversion of Control
8 3 (1.154%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.154%) Wiki
8 3 (1.154%) iPhone
9 2 (0.769%) Flash Lite
9 2 (0.769%) Derivative
9 2 (0.769%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.769%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.385%) NPfIT
10 1 (0.385%) Handset
10 1 (0.385%) E-Learning
10 1 (0.385%) IPTV
10 1 (0.385%) STB
Operating Systems
1 44 (16.92%) Windows
2 21 (8.077%) Linux
3 18 (6.923%) UNIX
4 14 (5.385%) Android
5 11 (4.231%) Windows Server 2003
6 10 (3.846%) Apple iOS
7 6 (2.308%) Windows Phone
8 5 (1.923%) Windows 8
9 3 (1.154%) Windows Phone 8
10 2 (0.769%) VMS
10 2 (0.769%) Windows Mobile
11 1 (0.385%) Solaris
11 1 (0.385%) MVS
11 1 (0.385%) Windows Phone 7
11 1 (0.385%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.385%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.385%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (26.15%) MVC
2 38 (14.62%) TDD
3 35 (13.46%) Agile Software Development
4 29 (11.15%) Web Development
5 26 (10.00%) Scrum
6 23 (8.846%) BDD
7 22 (8.462%) SOA
8 16 (6.154%) UML
9 14 (5.385%) OO
10 12 (4.615%) ETL
10 12 (4.615%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (4.231%) Migration
11 11 (4.231%) MVVM
12 9 (3.462%) Kanban
13 8 (3.077%) Content Management
14 7 (2.692%) Stakeholder Management
14 7 (2.692%) Workflow
14 7 (2.692%) Automation Testing
14 7 (2.692%) Continuous Integration
15 6 (2.308%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 106 (40.77%) C#
2 89 (34.23%) JavaScript
3 68 (26.15%) SQL
4 31 (11.92%) Java
5 23 (8.846%) Perl
6 19 (7.308%) PHP
7 13 (5.000%) C++
7 13 (5.000%) T-SQL
8 11 (4.231%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.077%) Python
9 8 (3.077%) PL/SQL
10 7 (2.692%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.538%) VBA
11 4 (1.538%) C
11 4 (1.538%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.154%) XAML
12 3 (1.154%) VB
12 3 (1.154%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.769%) ActionScript 3.0
13 2 (0.769%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 21 (8.077%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.154%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.231%) Degree
4 3 (1.154%) MCSD
4 3 (1.154%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.385%) ECDL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.154%) QA
2 2 (0.769%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.769%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (0.385%) Tivoli
1 1 (0.385%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 40 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.231%) Oracle
3 12 (4.615%) Adobe
4 11 (4.231%) Greenplum
5 9 (3.462%) Ericsson
5 9 (3.462%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 7 (2.692%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.308%) Meridio
8 5 (1.923%) Cramer
8 5 (1.923%) Business Objects
8 5 (1.923%) Nortel
9 4 (1.538%) Huawei
10 3 (1.154%) IBM
10 3 (1.154%) Sencha
11 2 (0.769%) Informatica
11 2 (0.769%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.769%) ESRI
12 1 (0.385%) NEC
12 1 (0.385%) Google
12 1 (0.385%) SAP
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